Improvement in gates



YP. PHILIPPI.

Gate.

No. 200,840. Patented March 5, I878.

ail/test. I nventor UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

POMPEIUS PHILIPPI, OF BEABDSTOWN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,840, dated March 5,1878; application filed June 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PoMPEIUs PHILIPPI, ofBeardstown, in the county of Oasis and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in my Gate, patented the 18th day ofSeptember, 1866, No. 58,130, which improvement is fully set forth in thefollowing specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figures 1 and 2 are views of my improved gate.

The object of my improvement is to secure a better locking of the gatewhen closed, which is done by a movable bolt, R, sliding under pin T atthe gate-post E, having the short end of the lever K lengthened, towhich the movable boltR is attached. The coupling P, annexed to the longrod J, with the spiral spring S inside the coupling, attached to rod J,is for the purpose of allowing lever K as much play as necessary towithdraw the bolt R before the acting of the lifting part of the gatetakes place, which latter part has been fully described in my patentabove mentioned.

I claim as my invention- The spiral spring S, attached to the rod Jinside the coupling P, in combination with the lengthened lever K,acting on the sliding bolt R, all for the purpose as herein described.

POMPEIUS PHILIPPI.

Witnesses:

I. PHILIPPI, E. H. PHILIPPI.

